Clothes-line.



A. D. MOYE.

CLOTHES LINE.

APPLICATION FILED we. 5, 190a.

1m 10mm.

UNITED STATES Patented June 21, 1904.

ANDREW D. MOYE, OF SOPERTON, GEORGIA.

CLOTH ES-LINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,309, dated June 21, 1904.

Application filed August 5, 1903. Serial No. 168,344. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LANDREW D. MOYE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Soperton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Lines; and I do de- 1 clare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes-lines, and comprises a chain made up of pinless links, each link being bent to form two longitudinal portions adapted to clamp the clothes and each link having free ends which are turned into open eyes and the opposite end of the link bent to form a loop for receiving the eyes of an adjacent link side by side.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of a clothes-line made in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail of one of the links.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates one of the links of which the chain is composed, each link being made of a single piece of wire bent upon itself, as at A, to form a loop B, adapted to receive the eyes E E, formed at the end of the adjacent link. The loops B are of such width as to receive two eyes E side by side and hold them together, as shown clearly in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and in order to allow the eyes E to engage the loops B said eyes are left open, as shown clearly in the detail view, Fig. 2, of the drawings. The distance between the two parallel portions of the loop B is such as to hold the eyes and also the two longitudinal portions of the link closely together, which portions clamp the clothes which are to be held by the line. Adjacent to the loop B is an outwardly-bent portion H, in which a portion of the clothes to be hung is passed and drawn between the longitudinal clamping portions of the link. As said longitudinal portions are flexible, they will yield sufliciently to allow the clothes to be inserted and to be held thereby.

While I have shown a particular construction of clothes-line embodying the features of my invention, it will be understood thatI may change the shape of the links, if desired, for various purposes Without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A clothes-line made up of a series of links, each of which has two longitudinal portions adapted to clamp clothes, one side of each link being bent to form an offset, the ends of the wire forming each link being bent into open eyes, and the end of the link adjacent to said offset being bent to form a loop B of sufficient width to snugly receive the two eyes of the adjacent end of a link, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANDREW D. MOYE.

Witnesses:

E. G. GILLIs, GEO. L. HUGHES. 

